7-8: Creating digital solutions: Creating an app or game
Use the context of apps and digital games development to learn text-based programming.
Additional details
Year band(s) | 7-8 |
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Content type | Scope and sequence |
Format | Web page |
Core and overarching concepts | Abstraction, Specification (decomposing problems), Algorithms, Implementation (programming), Interactions (user design) |
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
ACTDIP027
Define and decompose real-world problems taking into account functional requirements and economic, environmental, social, technical and usability constraints
ACTDIP028
Design the user experience of a digital system, generating, evaluating and communicating alternative designs
ACTDIP029
Design algorithms represented diagrammatically and in English, and trace algorithms to predict output for a given input and to identify errors
ACTDIP030
Implement and modify programs with user interfaces involving branching, iteration and functions in a general-purpose programming language
ACTDIP031
Evaluate how student solutions and existing information systems meet needs, are innovative, and take account of future risks and sustainability |
Technologies & Programming Languages | Python, JavaScript JS, other programming languages |
Keywords | problem solving, digital solution, digital game, scope, sequence, scope and sequence |
Organisation | ESA |
Copyright | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated. |
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